Juan Manuel Santos on Colombia’s peace process, 10 years on

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · May 31, 2026 · 51 words

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Juan Manuel Santos on Colombia’s peace process, 10 years on Ten years after Colombia’s landmark peace agreement, former president Juan Manuel Santos assesses its legacy.

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Juan Manuel Santos on Colombia’s peace process, 10 years on Ten years after Colombia’s landmark peace agreement, former president Juan Manuel Santos assesses its legacy.

Why it matters

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate discusses renewed violence, political divisions and what Colombia’s experience can teach a world facing growing conflict.

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Claim 1: “The Nobel Peace Prize laureate”

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Wikipedia entries for 'Juan Manuel Santos' and '2016 Nobel Peace Prize' both confirm that he was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Juan Manuel Santos's term as the 32nd president of Colombia began with his first inauguration on August 7, 2010, and ended on August 7, 2018. Santos, a center-right leader from Bogotá, took office aft…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Juan_Manuel_Sant…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos (b. 1951) "for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nobel_Peace_Prize

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Juan Manuel Santos Calderón ([ˈxwam maˈnwel ˈsantos kaldeˈɾon]; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos

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Claim 2: “former president Juan Manuel Santos”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that Juan Manuel Santos was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. This is further corroborated by multiple web search results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Germán Vargas Lleras (19 February 1962 – 8 May 2026) was a Colombian politician who served as 10th vice president of Colombia under president Juan Manuel Santos from 2014 to 2017. Vargas Lleras was o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germán_Vargas_Lleras

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Claim 3: “Ten years after Colombia’s landmark peace agreement”

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The Guardian reports on May 31, 2026, that the election comes '10 years after Colombia signed a historic peace pact'. This is corroborated by another web search result stating a '2016 accord with the FARC guerrillas' was signed, which mathematically aligns with the 10-year mark in 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in South America, with insular regions in North America. Colombia's mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colombia is a country in northwestern South America. Colombia may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia_(disambiguation)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore,…
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